linux-kernel - Re: i82875p_edac: BAR 0 collision

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Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:39:30 -0800
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Jarkko Lavinen <jlavi@....fi>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	bluesmoke-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: i82875p_edac: BAR 0 collision

On Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:44 pm Jarkko Lavinen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:01:52AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Might be an EDAC driver regression.  It might also be a consequence of
> > PCI address space management fiddlings, but I think most of the changes
> > there post-date 2.6.26?
>
> There were 3 issues:
>  1, PCI resources of the hidden overflow device had to be added separately
>  2. In nodule exit there is one more mci struct kobject put than
>      correspondig gets.
>  3. The edac_mc waitqueue must be stopped before the polled memory
>     area disappears.
>
> Th attached patch fixes these problems. Module loads and removes now
> without problems, with pci, edac, slab and kobject debug options
> enabled.
>
> i82875p code looks so simlar to i82875p that is has likely the same
> ref count issues as i82875p.

It's a little funky for a driver to be calling pci_bus_assign_resources; but 
if it really does act like a bus (sounds like this device does) it might be 
appropriate.  I don't have any problems with the patch, but it's really up to 
Doug.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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